[Macchiato] [EXT] Re: Mainstream Linux kernel

[Stefan Chulski]

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> From: Macchiato [mailto:macchiato-bounces at lists.einval.com] On Behalf Of
> Matteo Croce
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 4:42 PM
> To: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org>
> Cc: macchiato at lists.einval.com
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [Macchiato] Mainstream Linux kernel
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org>
> wrote:
> > On 30 April 2018 at 13:37, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 07:49:51PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> >>> Hi again.
> >>>
> >>> Following the instruction here:
> >>> https://elinux.org/Marvell_EBU:Mainline_Linux
> >>> I confirm that I have linux 4.14 fully working on the macchiatobin
> >>> by compiling the devel-4.14/all branch of
> >>> https://github.com/MISL-EBU-System-SW/mainline-public
> >
> >> The diff between that branch and 4.14 is 5MB in size. Much of which
> >> looks unrelated to this.
> >
> > Start from 4.14.22 and it make more sense. After that, majority of the
> > spurious delta comes still from backports branch which brings in some
> > SPDX changes. Fair enough, git can be painful. For a bit more useful
> > dig what is missing from the real mainline:
> >
> > git log --oneline mvebu-mainline/devel-4.14/all...v4.14.22
> >
> > Ignoring the other marvell platforms, For macchiatobin the only really
> > interesting functions this kernel has compared to mainline 4.16, is
> > support for the 10G interfaces and crypto accelerators. Which matches
> > my experience with the mainline 4.15 and 4.16 kernel Debian uses.
> >
> > Riku
> 
> Which are the upstream plans reagarding the ethernet card?
> mvpp2 will still used or mvpp2x will eventually enter upstream?
> 

mvpp2 is used and in future will has all mvpp2x features.

Best Regards.